Junzhe Hu

M.S. Robotics @ CMU Robotics
Incoming PhD @ MIT Mechanical Engineering (Fall 2026)
Soft Machines Lab & RExLab Β· Advisors: Carmel Majidi & Zachary Manchester
Bio-inspired Robots Fluid Robot Interaction Compliant Mechanism Embodied Mechanical Intelligence Robot Learning

About Me

I am a Master's student at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute, co-advised by Prof. Carmel Majidi (Soft Machines Lab) and Prof. Zachary Manchester (RExLab). I will join MIT Mechanical Engineering as a PhD student in Fall 2026.

My research centers on embodied intelligence in field robotics. I develop bio-inspired robotic systems, physics-based models, and control methods to study how morphology, material properties, and local sensing shape intelligent behavior in complex environments.

News

  • 2026.01 Paper on Realizing Robotic Swimming with Strongly-Coupled Fluid-Robot Multiphysics submitted to RSS 2026.
  • 2025.12 Paper on Spatiotemporal Stiffness Modulation accepted at npj Robotics!
  • 2025.10 Two workshop papers published at CoRL 2025 β€” SwimGym and Unified Multiphysics.
  • 2025.07 Paper on Aerial-Aquatic Robot accepted at IROS 2025 (Oral).
  • 2025.06 Workshop paper on Unified Multiphysics Framework published at ICRA 2025 Workshop.
  • 2025.05 Paper on Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation published in IEEE T-MI.
  • 2025.04 Paper on Vortex-Induced Propulsion submitted to PNAS.
  • 2024.08 Joined CMU Robotics Institute as a graduate research assistant.
  • 2024.05 Won Best Capstone Project Award (1/130) at University of Cincinnati.
  • 2023.11 Awarded Chinese Government National Scholarship (top 0.8%).
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Selected Publications

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Spatiotemporal Stiffness Modulation for Efficient Aquatic Robot Locomotion Accepted
J. Hu, J. Lee, T. Wu, G. Sue, J. Liao, Z. Erickson, Z. Manchester, C. Majidi
npj Robotics, 2026
Realizing Robotic Swimming with Strongly-Coupled Fluid-Robot Multiphysics Under Review
J. Hu*, J. H. Lee*, C. Majidi, Z. Manchester
RSS 2026 (Under Review)
Vortex-Induced Propulsion in Upstream Robotic Swimming Under Review
J. H. Lee*, J. Hu*, S. Kazi, M. Luhar, C. Majidi, Z. Manchester
PNAS (Under Review)
⏳ Under Review
A Novel Aerial-Aquatic Locomotion Robot with Variable Stiffness Propulsion Module Published
J. Hu, P. Chen, T. Feng, Y. Wen, K. Wu, J. Dong
IEEE IROS 2025 (Oral)
Expanding and Rectifying Pseudo-Label Perturbation Space for Semi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation Published
J. Hu, Y. Wen, E. Roussinova, M. Bouri
IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging, 2025